Zarah Sultana

21 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Diabetes: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to in response to the report entitled Recovering diabetes care: preventing the mounting crisis, published by Diabetes UK; and what estimate he has made of when t

21 Jul 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

NHS: Pay

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) provide an above inflation pay rise to NHS workers in 2022 and (b) ensure that that pay rise takes into account real term changes in NHS workers' pay since 2010; and what assessment

21 Jul 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Aiding and Abetting: Autism

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people with autism have been (a) convicted and (b) acquitted under joint enterprise since the Supreme Court judgement of 18 February 2016 in R v Jogee; and how many of those convicted were (i) first and

21 Jul 2022 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Turkey: Kurds

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what estimate she has made of the (a) death toll and (b) casualty rate of Turkey’s military action in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Operation Claw Lock; what

21 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: Females

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, with reference to the Parliamentary Health Service Ombudsman's investigation into the communication of changes to women’s State Pension age, whether the Government plans to offer compensation to those a

20 Jul 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

State Retirement Pensions: National Insurance Contributions

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the increase in the National Insurance contribution threshold on eligibility for the State Pension; and what steps his Department is ta

21 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Body Searches: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking in response to the finding by BBC Radio 4's File on 4 programme that an estimated 13,000 children have been strip-searched by police since 2017; what assessment she has made o

21 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Pupils: Assessments

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of (a) SATs and (b) statutory testing on pupil mental health and wellbeing; and if he will make it his policy to pause such testing to allow for a profession-

20 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Eating Disorders

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of teaching on eating disorders in medical schools; and what steps his Department is taking to ensure doctors have the training, knowledge an

1 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

British Students Abroad: Ukraine

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department plans to facilitate British national students studying medicine and other degrees in Ukraine, who have had to leave their studies due to the war in that country, to transfer to the same c

1 Jun 2022 · Leader of the House

All-party Parliamentary Groups: Finance

To ask the Leader of the House, if he will make an assessment of the compatibility of the level of funding for all party parliamentary groups (APPGs) received from the private sector since 2018 with public interest; and if he will hold discussions with re

1 Jun 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the decision to end free access to lateral flow tests on the rates of covid-19 (a) infection, (b) severe illness and (c) death for people wh

1 Jun 2022 · Department for Education

Special Educational Needs: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if his Department will take steps to meet Sense's call for a £34.3 million multi-sensory impairment (MSI) education fund to ensure that children who need a trained MSI teacher have access to one.

1 Jun 2022 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Clothing and Textiles

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps the Government plans to take to (a) reduce textiles waste in the UK, (b) improve the environmental sustainability of materials and production processes used in the productio

1 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Home Office: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has plans to make training on domestic abuse, which includes recognition of specific needs of victims resulting from their ethnicity or cultural background, mandatory for public

1 Jun 2022 · Home Office

Asylum

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) adjustments, (b) translation services and (c) other support her Department (i) has in place and (ii) plans to put in place for people seeking asylum who may initially provide incorrect person

1 Jun 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Independent Monitoring Boards: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what funding his Department has made available to the independent monitoring board in 2022-23; and how does that figure compare to the funding for 2021-22.

16 May 2022 · Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Conveyancing: Fees and Charges

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether his Department plans to regulate the payment of referral fees to estate agents for referring customers to particular conveyancing services and the passing on of the cost of t

16 May 2022 · Treasury

Charging Points: VAT

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the (a) potential impact of the higher rate of VAT charged on public electric vehicle charging compared with home charging on the uptake of electric vehicles and (b) potent

11 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Coronavirus: Care Homes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of his policy to end free access to lateral flow tests for visiting people in care homes on (a) the distributional impact of the costs of such tests for those vis

11 May 2022 · Department of Health and Social Care

Fractures: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to ensure universal access to fracture liaison services; and what recent assessment his Department has made of the impact of the absence of universal service availabili

20 Apr 2022 · Treasury

Self-employment Income Support Scheme

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to support self-employed workers facing (a) financial hardship or (b) bankruptcy due to tax repayments on SEISS grants.

20 Apr 2022 · Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Parental Leave

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if he will introduce additional paid parental leave entitlements equivalent to the time parents have to take off from work as a result of their baby's health complications.

20 Apr 2022 · Ministry of Justice

Independent Monitoring Boards: Recruitment

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment his Department has made of the extent of recruitment challenges to Independent Monitoring Boards (IMB); what steps he plans to take to tackle those challenges; and what assessment he has made of t

17 Mar 2022 · Treasury

Public Sector: Workplace Pensions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it remains his policy to allow the cost-sharing principle for the public service pension scheme to continue for at least the 25 years initially agreed with unions in 2015.

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Exhaust Emissions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, in the context of reductions in rail passenger demand resulting in reduced services, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of resultant reduced rail use on transport emissions; and whether the G

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Work and Pensions

Personal Independence Payment: Older People

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, for what reason (a) people over the state pension age who wish to claim Personal Independence Payments (PIP) rather than Attendance Allowance (AA) are not entitled to do so and (b) AA does not include a

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Railways: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has carried out an equality impact assessment of bereaved partners losing access to the Two Together railcard following the death of their partner; and what assessment his Department has

15 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Disability

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, for what reason the Government has not yet introduced mandatory disability awareness training for taxi drivers through new national minimum standards for licensing authorities; and what his planned timetable is

14 Mar 2022 · Department for Transport

Highway Code: Accidents

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact on traffic accidents, injuries and deaths of updates to the Highway Code made on 29 January 2022.